I think we already have a semi-secret handshake. I joined Sequent
Computer Systems around 1991 as a support technician. Because I was
the only software engineer on that team I wrote a lot of their support
tools. Which included supporting (but mostly arguing against) using
Smalltalk as the basis for a expert system to support our customers.
Those were the days, as you allude to, when things like a X Window
system terminal (i.e., client) was bleeding edge. I've never written a
line of code in Occam but remember reading about it and debating its
merits.

I love this historical banter. How many guys still with the project
overlapped
with Falstad? Bart of course, anyone else? So vital to have known the
mind of the